@@petergrant2932 removed head, placed in cleaning solution in a bottle cap for 2 days. not whole head just the bottom 2mm. Reinstalled and just used syringe and pulled ink through captop. I find this is the safe way. Pulling ink instead of pushing liquids from the top. using small syringe took about 20 draws, each time few nozzle came back. kept doing normal clean and test print to check the progress.
Hi, Great video and thanks for posting it. I'm right in the middle of try to bring back a Roland SC-540 that was printing the test print perfect about 3 months ago but how is not good I only have Cyan with a little black. have started with a head soak but looks like I will have to do a complete flush out of the heads like you did. have been looking online for the service book But no luck at all. Thank God I found your video as was about to take the heads out and see you have to do a head calibration print sheet. lucky right😱 Any chance you can help out with a service book...Please or how to enter that mode. Cheers from Tasmania.👋
Awesome video, thank you! I've been using DX4 for years and never had this problem before. On my VP two of printheads went down at same time. M and Y. And as usual I checked fuses and mosfets on mobo, they all ok. Tested printheads in another machine and they not working. Happended during manual cleaning, i got ink all over the machine, dont ask how hah, long story short. Is there a way to swap out the board on the head? or fix heads somehow. Its a waste as they were pretty new. It has to be some small resistor or something.
Have you moved or unplugged a cable card (ribbon cable to the heads)? Did you get ink in where the cable plugs in, or on the head board? If not, then unplug those cable cards, clean, then reinstall. However, if they got wet, it may be a different issue.
@@petergrant2932 Thanks for your reply! no cables weren't unplugged and ink didnt get to the head area or head boards. Ink got to large cable going to the main board. I tested head on other printer and issue is the printheads not the boards or cables. Is there a way to repair the head electronics?
@@EdgeCreativeSydney From what I've seen under the microscope, I feel they are made via robotics. That said, you or I being able to work on them is mere impossible as everything is microscopic. As for the surface mounted components, they too require special tools and a microscope to work on. Sad to say, once they go out-of-service, we have to replace them completely :(
Is it the ink lines that are clogged? I back-flushed the ones in this video and went perfectly. The SP is the same as the SC, just more heads and parts, though basically the same machine to work on as I've serviced both. And to mention, I pulled all the circuit boards from my SC at one point and cleaned them all up before reinstalling.
I notices on the XC-540 you did not put the pressure plate on top of the dampers, is there a reason for that? There is a sponge on this pressure plate that does not cover all dampers and I always felt this plate was bad engineering
@@impressionstitan1561 It was left off during the calibration setup so that the heads could be moved with the hex-key and thumb-screw. Once calibration was completed, the pressure plate was reinstalled :)
I am using an cheap canon MG2577S printer which belongs to MG2500. It comes with non reusable cartridges which I filled 3 times and after that it clogged. I tested the printer ink in my fountain pen ,I found that it dries faster and pigments stick all over the ink cartridge of my cheapf ountain pen. I found that these inks are designed to clog. Also the cartridge life is less its designed to be like that. I want to try out of the box things the only available water soluble ink I can get is cheap or expensive fountain pen inks which is water soluble while most printer inks are not that soluble in water.
typing the date of the dampers is an excellent idea. Never thought of that. I writhe everything in an excel file, but this here is a lot faster
Today I recovered printheads from a printer that was sitting unused for 4 years. Just shows how tough these Dx4 heads are.
What methods did you use?
@@petergrant2932 removed head, placed in cleaning solution in a bottle cap for 2 days. not whole head just the bottom 2mm. Reinstalled and just used syringe and pulled ink through captop. I find this is the safe way. Pulling ink instead of pushing liquids from the top. using small syringe took about 20 draws, each time few nozzle came back. kept doing normal clean and test print to check the progress.
as a Roland technician i can say SP-model printers are most simple and reliable machines. Love it😊
Indeed, and I agree.
Thank you for all your information
No one on the internet shows how to complete the installation by adjustment via bias and software. That would save my life if they did!
what do you need to know?
Wow.
This is a great video M8.
Awesome help for me.
Thank you
Can you post a video that gives more detail on exactly how to adjust the bias and exactly how to do the software adjustments?
do you have the manual? its shows step by step with images
Actually, the material below is in fact not quartz, but silicon. It wasn't cut using a laser. Better yet, it was made by etching the pattern
Hi, Great video and thanks for posting it. I'm right in the middle of try to bring back a Roland SC-540 that was printing the test print perfect about 3 months ago but how is not good I only have Cyan with a little black. have started with a head soak but looks like I will have to do a complete flush out of the heads like you did. have been looking online for the service book But no luck at all.
Thank God I found your video as was about to take the heads out and see you have to do a head calibration print sheet. lucky right😱
Any chance you can help out with a service book...Please or how to enter that mode. Cheers from Tasmania.👋
Awesome video, thank you! I've been using DX4 for years and never had this problem before. On my VP two of printheads went down at same time. M and Y. And as usual I checked fuses and mosfets on mobo, they all ok. Tested printheads in another machine and they not working. Happended during manual cleaning, i got ink all over the machine, dont ask how hah, long story short. Is there a way to swap out the board on the head? or fix heads somehow. Its a waste as they were pretty new. It has to be some small resistor or something.
Have you moved or unplugged a cable card (ribbon cable to the heads)? Did you get ink in where the cable plugs in, or on the head board? If not, then unplug those cable cards, clean, then reinstall. However, if they got wet, it may be a different issue.
@@petergrant2932 Thanks for your reply! no cables weren't unplugged and ink didnt get to the head area or head boards. Ink got to large cable going to the main board. I tested head on other printer and issue is the printheads not the boards or cables. Is there a way to repair the head electronics?
@@EdgeCreativeSydney From what I've seen under the microscope, I feel they are made via robotics. That said, you or I being able to work on them is mere impossible as everything is microscopic. As for the surface mounted components, they too require special tools and a microscope to work on. Sad to say, once they go out-of-service, we have to replace them completely :(
@@petergrant2932 thank you mate, what a shame, luckly they are cheap to buy now :)
Hi, which cleaning fluid did you use and did you soak the head 1st? Thanks
Hello Nuno, did extensive soak and cleaning, however the head was at end of life. Used regular/standard cleaning fluid.
Whats up brother do you have any videos working on your sc545? I have one right now that I am trying to unclog the lines and bring back to life.
Is it the ink lines that are clogged? I back-flushed the ones in this video and went perfectly. The SP is the same as the SC, just more heads and parts, though basically the same machine to work on as I've serviced both. And to mention, I pulled all the circuit boards from my SC at one point and cleaned them all up before reinstalling.
I notices on the XC-540 you did not put the pressure plate on top of the dampers, is there a reason for that? There is a sponge on this pressure plate that does not cover all dampers and I always felt this plate was bad engineering
@@impressionstitan1561 It was left off during the calibration setup so that the heads could be moved with the hex-key and thumb-screw. Once calibration was completed, the pressure plate was reinstalled :)
I am using an cheap canon MG2577S printer which belongs to MG2500. It comes with non reusable cartridges which I filled 3 times and after that it clogged. I tested the printer ink in my fountain pen ,I found that it dries faster and pigments stick all over the ink cartridge of my cheapf ountain pen. I found that these inks are designed to clog. Also the cartridge life is less its designed to be like that. I want to try out of the box things the only available water soluble ink I can get is cheap or expensive fountain pen inks which is water soluble while most printer inks are not that soluble in water.
bravo